JEAN-BAPTISTE AUGUSTE ÉTIENNE CHARCOT (1867-1936)
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JEAN-BAPTISTE AUGUSTE ÉTIENNE CHARCOT (1867-1936)

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JEAN-BAPTISTE AUGUSTE ÉTIENNE CHARCOT (1867-1936)
Journal de l'Expédition Antarctique Française. Le "Francais" au Pôle Sud. Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1906. 4° (274 x 190mm.). Portrait frontispiece, 5 maps (1 folding), plates, numerous illustrations. Contemporary morocco-backed marbled paper-covered boards, original upper and lower pictorial wrappers bound in, t.e.g. (some scuffing and discolouration to the morocco-backed boards).


FIRST EDITION. Conrad p.134; Rosove 60.A1a ('Uncommon'); Spence 253; Taurus 54.

[With:]
10 others by or on Charcot: [Various contributors]. Jean-Baptiste Charcot 1867-1936, Paris: 1936, 4°, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards; Marthe OULIÉ. Charcot of the Antarctic, London, 1938, 8°, original cloth, dust-jacket; M. OULIÉ. Charcot of the Antarctic, New York: 1939, original cloth, dust-jacket; Marthe EMMANUEL. Charcot, navagateur polaire, Paris: 1943, 12°, original wrappers; CHARCOT. Autour du Pôle Sud, Paris: [n.d.], 12°, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards; J.-B.Charcot (1867-1936).. avec deux aquarelles... de Main-Marie, Paris: [n.d. but ?1936], 2°, original boards, limited edition; E. TOPSENT. Expédition Antarctique Française,... science Naturelles: Documents Scientifiques... extract, Paris: [n.d. but circa 1908], 4°, original wrappers, signed by Topsent. (9)
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